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Our local high school has a Speech and Debate class as an elective for the kids on their Speech and Debate team. Here is the course description
Course Description
This course is designed to prepare students to become effective speakers, presenters, and/or debaters in public discourse. The class meets California State Standards in English Language for Speaking and Listening, as well as including California High School Speech Association and National Forensics League forms of public address.
The course is divided into two sections for the semester: speech & debate. During the first quarter, the focus is on speech. Students are taught skills in speaking--both prepared and impromptu speeches. Speech assignments may be modeled after the National Forensics competition categories (extemporaneous, original oratory/advocacy, dramatic/ humorous/duo/oratorical/thematic interpretation, original prose/poetry, expository, impromptu, student congress). Students learn how to speak effectively for given audiences. Students learn techniques that are effective in getting their point across, while avoiding common speaking mistakes. Students will learn to prepare and memorize speeches in a set time period. (Example: a two minute speech on a given topic.) The second quarter focuses on debate. Students will learn effective argument and debate skills. They will learn techniques in researching, organizing, and presenting information in an effective argument. Debate assignments may be modeled after the National Forensics competition categories (Lincoln Douglas, Policy, Parliamentary, Public Forum).Supplemental Information
10 credits
Meets high school graduation requirement for practical art/CTE or elective Repeatable up to 80 credits -
My ds has said that Intermediate Number Theory is the hardest class. He spent twice as many hours on Intermediate Number Theory than on PreCalc and barely got into the green. He has always been solidly in Blue for all of the other classes. One of the issue is that AoPS doesn’t have a textbook for Int NT class. We ended up getting him Joseph H. Silverman's "A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory" as the textbook when taking AoPS Intermediate Number Theory.
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I ask my ds, who has taken all of the listed AoPS classes and he said that he would have preferred to take PreCalc and Calc before Int C&P and Int Number Theory. He also said that he would have preferred to take Number theory last because it was the hardest.
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San Diego math circle offers the F=ma test. Some of the local high schools do as well. I know that Torrey pines and CCA administer the test.
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My ds14 is similar to your dc. He excels at math, but not passionate about it. His passion is computer science. Here are the classes he has taken
AoPS Intro to Number Theory
AoPS Algebra
AoPS Intro to counting and Probability
AoPS geometry
AoPS intermediate algebra
AoPS intermediate counting and Probability
AoPS PreCalc
AoPS intermediate number theory
AoPS calculus
He is dual enrolled taking calculus 3 and Linear Algebra this year. He will take calculus multi variable and vector calculus and finish lower division math in 9th grade.
For 10-12 grades, he will take upper division applied mathematics required for Computer Science and Engineering classes like calculus-base probability and Statistics, applied Linear Algebra, discrete math and graph theory.
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My ds enjoyed the idtech camps
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Awesome Math also has classes to prepare for the Chemistry Olympiad. We have not tried the classes.
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Just now, MeaganS said:
So I looked into and sent them an email. It seems homeschoolers can't sign up without going through a public school? Is that true? How do you manage that?
We sign up through the local math circle. There are math circles, universities and learning centers( like AoPS Academy and Russian Math School, etc.) that administer the exams. You can search for the location near you on the AMC site.
https://amc-reg.maa.org/amc_external/SchoolSearchByZipCode.aspx-
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5 hours ago, Clarita said:
Hmm... when I was going to school by middle and high school any kid who did well academically got into APs, STEM fun stuff, gifted was not a qualification. In fact in high school most of my fun stuff came about because I was a girl interested in STEM. In elementary though I knew the "gifted program" kids got to do stuff that I didn't get to do.
In my dds high school kids in the gifted program got the opportunity to take AP in 9th, others had to wait until 10th. The English classes also had a different curriculum. The students in the “regular” classes were tracked into so the didn’t have prerequisites for AP or advanced, unless the took a summer school to bridge into advance classes.
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I would sign her up for AMC 8.
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26 minutes ago, Clarita said:
That's nuts to me too. No one even says that being gifted or being in the gifted program means you are more likely to make lots of money or be successful in anyway.
Majority of families prep their kids for gifted entrance exams in our area because kids in gifted programs get access to the best teachers in the school. They also get access to in school enrichment opportunities, like musical theatre, math contest, and stem programs in elementary and middle school. Then in high school kids get opportunities to enroll in advance, honors, AP and dual enrollment.
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I think there is difference between kids who are accredited and kids who are gifted. A child can be accelerated by being diligent and working hard. Giftedness is wired in and not taught.
My girls worked hard and were accelerated, we didn’t consider them gifted. They were several grades ahead in math and reading, but this was due to hard work. They know that they are are smart because of their hard work.My ds13 on the other hand, I would consider gifted. He puts in no effort and is a sponge. He just absorbs information and masters it with no practice. He started taking college classes at 11. He is volunteering in a computer engineering lab at the local university and the professor he works with will tells me that ds is working at a higher level than his other undergraduate research assistants. Ds knows that he is gifted.-
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My ds 13 will sleep about 10-12 hours. I have noticed when he hits a growth spurt he will sleep 12 hours, easy. He is a night owl like his dad. He will go to be around 11 and wake around 9am
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8 minutes ago, OnceUponAFullMoon said:
When he self studied with a book, he did all the problems in the book but with a slower pace (about 1 chapter per week.)
With the online class, he will need to complete the challenging problems+alcumus+writing problem that covers materials from around 2 chapters per week. It'd be nice to know how many alcumus problems there are on average to expect assuming (even if it's a big assuming) that he can get them all correct.
He needs to get to green for an A in the class.
https://artofproblemsolving.com/school/handbook/current/documentation
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5 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
I don't think exactly that my son needs the most rigorous, but he does need something to do after AP Calc now, and I just don't know what I don't know. So I figured this class would be commensurate with any other Linear Algebra Class. If it was a choice between this class and a community college class (which are also online) I figured this one would be more challenging than those at lease.
He did decide, however, to take the AOPS Group Theory class this semester. Just kicking the can down the road until next year I suppose. Ideally next year we will find something that is in person!
He can take in person classes math at UCSD, they offer concurrent enrollment for middle and high school students through Extension. It’s more rigorous than CC.
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Mix honey and lemon with hot water or tea.
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8 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:
I think this is true to some extent, but…
Bunch of kids who graduated this year from local PS with pretty much identical transcripts (give or take some electives) have outcomes at UCs very much aligned with their scores. So in the absence of SATs, from a group of 15 kids we know closely through friends and soccer team, the difference was mostly in AP scores. These are all sports kids for extracurriculars and have very much the same transcript since our local PS isn’t flexible on what it allows students to take over the first two years. It seems to me UCLA and UCB relied heavily on reported AP scores no matter what they say publicly. This is all anecdotal evidence of course. But I wouldn’t completely dismiss scores.
We found this to be the case with kids in our area as well.
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Invisalign was 7000 and regular braces 5000
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19 hours ago, OnceUponAFullMoon said:
Does the live video/zoom style class at the academy cost the same as an in-person class at the academy?
My student do well with pre-recorded videos but need help clarifying things out here and there. He doesn't do well with zoom style unless it's 1 on 1. I heard WTM AOPS classes aren't as rigorous? The in-person academy class is so expensive and I'm not sure if it's worth it. 😰😬
The in person cost about 300 more per year than the virtual academy. My ds normally attends the in person at the academy, but he did virtual last year. He has also taken the text base classes as well. He prefers the in person classes. I would say the in person classes are definitely worth the cost. Ds has taken both math and ELA classes at the academy.
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1 hour ago, SeaConquest said:
I no longer have faith in the vaccine -- at least for me. I was vaccinated in December/January. The latest data out of Israel shows that people vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in January have only 16% protection against infection at this point. With the contagiousness of Delta, and the number of exposures I routinely have at work, I have little doubt that it is only a matter of time before I get Covid. I am beyond depressed and frankly cannot muster much empathy for the folks who have chosen not to vaccinate at this point. But, we need boosters for high-risk folks and vaxes for kids like yesterday.
I am hoping for boosters soon. Come on CDC.
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3 minutes ago, KSera said:
I haven’t seen a 16% number yet. Where did you see that one?
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1418669725404602370?s=21
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5 minutes ago, Ausmumof3 said:
Ugh do you know where that data is?
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The breakdown of Israeli covid numbers are really troubling.
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20 hours ago, WTM said:
Any recommendations for which AOPS Contest Math book to get for a student who has just completed the AOPS Intro series (Intro to Alg, NT, C&P, Geo) and has done reasonably well on AMC8 in the past (But not very well on AMC 10)? Will Volume 1 be too basic, or will there still be good things to learn? Will Vol 2 be too hard? This would be for the student to work through on their own for fun, not as part of a class.
Trying not to overbuy 🙂--- Thanks in advance !
My ds used Volume 1 for Mathcounts, AMC 8, and AMC 10(problems 1-20) He is using Volume 2 for AMC 10 for problems 20-25 level, AMC 12 and AIME.
Volume one is used for AoPS middle school math contest and Volume 2 is used for High school math contest class at their Academy.-
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Waitlist/Appeal essays, who reads them?
in The College Board
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A DF got her son off the waitlist at UCB a few years back, she used Ms. Sun to help craft the waitlist statement.
https://askmssun.com/waitlist-statement-service/